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JonN 0. BURCH, oE' INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA.

WASHING-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 229,030, dated June 22, 1880.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JOHN O. BURCH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Indianapolis, in the county of Marion and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Washing-Machines, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a washing-machine attached to an ordinary washtub, in which the clothes are drawn by endless cords worked by a crank and rollers up over one grooved wash-board, passing under a roller operating on springs and acting as a wringer, down onto a second grooved wash-board, passing under a second roller into the wash-tub.

Heretofore washing machines have been made for clothes to pass over a plain guideboard up onto a grooved roller and down between this roller and wash-board into tub.

The object of my invention is to provide a more efficient washing-machine than the ones now in use, by which clothes are cleaned with but one half the number of revolutions of the crank as heretofore, thus saving time and strength of the operator. I attain this object by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which similar letters of reference indicate like parts.

Figure l is a perspective view of my Washing-machine attached to a wash-tub. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the machine with the wash-tub partly broken off. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal vertical section of the entire machine.

A is an ordinary wash-board, with a roller, D, at its lower end, and another roller, F, worked by a crank, f, at its top end. Said rollers D and F are provided with parallel circumferential grooves, to allow the endless cords I I to pass up and down without changing their respective distance.

On top of the wash-board A works a third roller, E, with the same kind of grooves as on the other rollers. This roller is so secured that it can be removed at pleasure. It is held in place by spring-hooks e e secured to the frame of the wash-board, thus allowing smaller and larger articles to pass up on the washboard A, under the roller E, and each being subjected to a uniform pressure against the wash-board.

"'B is a second wash-board, shorter than Application filed May 1, 1880.

(No model.)

board A, and fastened at its lower end to the under side of wash-board A bymeans of springs G 0, said springs being secured to the under side of wash-board A and to the upper side of wash-board B, thus allowing the distance between the two wash-boards to change as the articles being washed vary in size.

The upper end of wash-board B is held up against roller F by means of the elastic straps H, which are secured to the top ends of both wash-boards.

Each of the endless cords I I is formed out of two single cordsfl" 6 which are fastened together at certain intervals, thus forming holders to draw clothes through and keep them in place while passing over the washboards.

G G are supports working on pivots g 9, so that the top end of the machine can be lowered or raised and the apparatus can be attached to a small tub as well as alarge one.

The operation of my device is as follows Af ter the machine has been secured to the washtub by setting its lower ends into the tub and clamping legs G onto the stave's of the washtub, roller E is removed tomake board A free from any obstruction.- The cloth es are fastened to the endless cords I I, into the holders form ed by the single cords t" and i Roller E is then put in place again, a piece of soapis deposited back of roller E, on top of board A, another piece back of roller F, on top of board B then the crank f is turned, so that the clothes will pass over roller D, up onto wash-board A, under roller E, down over roller F, onto washboard B, and back into the tub, and so on as many times as is necessary to make them perfectly clean.

It will easily be seen that in my machine the clothes, as they pass up on the wash-board A, are washed on one side, and as they pass down on wash-board B are washed on the other side.

1 am aware that prior to my invention washing-machines have been made with endless cords passing over grooved rollers and boards. I therefore do not claim such a combination, broadly; but

What I claim as myinvention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The endless cords I I, each formed out of two separate cords, i and i fastened together in certain intervals, in combination with the rollers D and F on Wash-board A,the roller E, Working in spring-hooks e e, the Wash-board B, connected with wash-board A by the springs O O and held up against roller F by the clastic straps H, fastened to the top ends of both Wash-boards, and the supports G G, working on pivots g g, all substantially as specified, and for the purpose set forth.

JOHN O. BURCH. Witnesses:

JAMES B. LIZIUS, J OHN A. D. MUELLER. 

